Cancer Matters

Perspectives from those who live it every day.

Students Offer Handmade Hope

January 20, 2011

    This post is written by Shaun Morris, Public Relations Intern, Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center   The Gerstell Academy varsity girls’ basketball team delivered 50 hand-painted Believe Mugs to cancer patients and family members in the Weinberg Building on January 5th. This is the first year that the students have delivered the mugs, […]

Michelle Potter ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Uncategorized

Pancreatic cancer

January 14, 2011

There are few cancers that are as tough to beat as pancreatic cancer.  When it is found, the disease has usually spread, and only about 20 percent of newly-diagnosed patients are eligible for surgery. But if there is ever a time when there are high hopes for new ways to detect and treat it, the time is now.  Scientists at Johns […]

admin ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Research pancreatic cancer, vw ⋅

Fatigue

January 7, 2011

Five weeks into radiation, I decided that the hair on my legs had become so long that an intervention was necessary.  Going somewhere to have my legs waxed was too overwhelming in my current state, and cutting myself while shaving seemed like a small risk, as I’d internalized my doctors’ advice about the compromised nature […]

admin ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Survivorship Breast Cancer, fatigue, side-effects, Survivorship ⋅

“New” Resolutions

January 3, 2011

It’s the time of year when we think about New Year’s resolutions…typical ones might include losing weight, spending more time with family, quit smoking.   But our Cancer Center nurses have given new meaning to the New Year’s theme – their recent trip to Guatemala to give their time and talents to help people build a new […]

Michelle Potter ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Uncategorized nursing ⋅

Getting Personal About Personalized Cancer Medicine

December 17, 2010

I got into this business 25 years ago, when my husband was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease.  I was a newlywed, and at 22-years-old, I faced the prospect of being a widow.  The evening we learned the shocking news, I remember leaving the hospital to return home. I was numb with fear.  I went into our […]

Valerie Matthews-Mehl ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Patient Stories, precision medicine personalized medicine, Promise & Progress ⋅

Medicare, The A,B,C,D’s…Let’s Talk D

December 14, 2010

You may be confused by the list of letters after the word Medicare.  A, B, C, D...  Who can keep them straight?  There is a web page that can give the answers.  It is www.medicare.gov. Let's Talk D:  Let me give you the important Medicare D news for 2011.    I am going to start with the […]

Louise Knight ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Uncategorized Medicare, Prescription drug coverage ⋅

7 Tips on Top Cancer Centers

December 9, 2010

What makes an outstanding cancer center?  How can patients and referring physicians determine which is best?

admin ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, treatment vw ⋅

Why I Run

November 30, 2010

As an avid runner, I participate in many races each year.  I enter these for many reasons. I love to run, it’s a challenge, and sometimes it’s for a good cause. At the beginning of each race, I like to look around at the starting line at the wide range of people running the event.  […]

Michelle Potter ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Uncategorized sarcoma ⋅

Completion of Treatment — Time to Celebrate?

November 3, 2010

This post is written by Lillie Shockney, the Administrative Director of the Johns Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center and a two-time breast cancer survivor. Completing Treatment - Time to Celebrate? You'd think so. You've been through surgery, perhaps chemo and radiation, maybe on or completing hormonal therapy and you are finally "done" breast cancer treatment. So ready […]

Elissa Bantug ⋅ Issues & Perspectives Breast Cancer, Survivorship, treatment ⋅

Finding the Spark Again After Cancer

October 19, 2010

One of the most common complaints I hear from cancer survivors is a change in their sex life.  Within days after returning home from my mastectomy, I attempted to be intimate with my husband even though I had yet to regain the ability to dress or shower myself with medical drains still attached. I thought […]

admin ⋅ Issues & Perspectives, Survivorship Breast Cancer, intimacy, sexuality, Survivorship ⋅

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